Maria Madrid (she/her)
@mariamadrid16.bsky.social
Colombian 🇨🇴 PhD student @ KU Leuven || Bioinformatician || Eco-evolutionary genomics 🪲🦋🕷️ Studying the evolutionary role of chromosomal inversions in beetles
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Fantastic "first" #EvolutionaryGenomics day @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with talks from Kerstin Johannesson, Felicity Jones, Alexander Suh, @wenjuanma84.bsky.social, @mariamadrid16.bsky.social, and many others 🐌🐦🐟🐞🐚🌱🧬
September 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Fantastic "first" #EvolutionaryGenomics day @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with talks from Kerstin Johannesson, Felicity Jones, Alexander Suh, @wenjuanma84.bsky.social, @mariamadrid16.bsky.social, and many others 🐌🐦🐟🐞🐚🌱🧬
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
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🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
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Great times at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Recovering now with @aaronkiggen.bsky.social @mariamadrid16.bsky.social @biologaboricua.bsky.social @alexkourt.bsky.social @kristinayefimak.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Great times at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Recovering now with @aaronkiggen.bsky.social @mariamadrid16.bsky.social @biologaboricua.bsky.social @alexkourt.bsky.social @kristinayefimak.bsky.social
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Got the chance to present my research on chromosomal inversions and beetles at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona 🪲🧬 Thanks for everyone who came and asked questions!
Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time!
@svbelleghem.bsky.social
Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time!
@svbelleghem.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Got the chance to present my research on chromosomal inversions and beetles at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona 🪲🧬 Thanks for everyone who came and asked questions!
Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time!
@svbelleghem.bsky.social
Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time!
@svbelleghem.bsky.social
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Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish?
Join us in 🧜♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 :
🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
Join us in 🧜♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 :
🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
May 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish?
Join us in 🧜♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 :
🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
Join us in 🧜♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 :
🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
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Open PhD position in Population Genomics at University of Zurich. Fully funded, focus on human demographics, genetics, and cultural evolution. Apply by June 30, 2025. More info: https://www.evobio.uzh.ch/en.html #phd
www.evobio.uzh.ch
May 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Open PhD position in Population Genomics at University of Zurich. Fully funded, focus on human demographics, genetics, and cultural evolution. Apply by June 30, 2025. More info: https://www.evobio.uzh.ch/en.html #phd
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VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open!
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd
If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.
🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd
If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.
🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
May 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open!
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd
If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.
🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd
If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.
🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
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Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
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🚨PhD position in AI in Microbiology!
We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research.
🌍 More info & apply:
jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social
We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research.
🌍 More info & apply:
jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social
PhD Position in AI in Microbiology - VIB
About the labThe lab of Jeroen Raes (VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications. In additi...
jobs.vib.be
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🚨PhD position in AI in Microbiology!
We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research.
🌍 More info & apply:
jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social
We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research.
🌍 More info & apply:
jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social
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Metagenomic, metabolomic and sensorial characteristics of fermented Coffea arabica L. var. Castillo beans inoculated with microbial starter cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634363v1
January 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Metagenomic, metabolomic and sensorial characteristics of fermented Coffea arabica L. var. Castillo beans inoculated with microbial starter cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634363v1
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage at Stockholm University extended to May 4, 2025. Suitable candidates should apply via: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:805048/where:4/ #phd
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
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April 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage at Stockholm University extended to May 4, 2025. Suitable candidates should apply via: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:805048/where:4/ #phd
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A PhD position in plant evolutionary genomics is available at Univ.Vienna 🇦🇹. Focus: genomic drivers underlying the diversification of Tillandsia 😍. Funded by a project between France & Austria (ANR-FWF project RadiaSpe).
Come join the team!
More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
Come join the team!
More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
thibaultleroyfr.github.io
April 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A PhD position in plant evolutionary genomics is available at Univ.Vienna 🇦🇹. Focus: genomic drivers underlying the diversification of Tillandsia 😍. Funded by a project between France & Austria (ANR-FWF project RadiaSpe).
Come join the team!
More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
Come join the team!
More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
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“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)
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Apply now! Wieslaw is the best supervisor and the project is great! If you want to be supervised by a person from whom you can learn a lot, who cares about your scientific development and you want to work in our fantastic team - do not hesitate any longer! Please share!
February 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Apply now! Wieslaw is the best supervisor and the project is great! If you want to be supervised by a person from whom you can learn a lot, who cares about your scientific development and you want to work in our fantastic team - do not hesitate any longer! Please share!
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This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨🔬🧬🖥️
Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨🔬🧬🖥️
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Reskeet if you fucking love trans people
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Reskeet if you fucking love trans people
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The WPSG2025 group photo! @evomics.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The WPSG2025 group photo! @evomics.bsky.social